Ornamental roof.



OVERBURY,

ORNAMENTAL RQOF.

APPLICATION FILED AUG Patented May '7, 1918.

when STATES PATENT onrron.

FREDERICK G. OVERBURY, OF HILLSDALE, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR. BY MESNE ASSIGN- MENTS, TO THE FLINTKOTE COMPANY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORA- rron or MASSACHUSETTS.

ORNAMENTAL ROOF.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK C, OVER- BURY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Hillsdalc, in the county of Bergen and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ornamental Roofs, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has relation to roofs for dwellings, public buildings, barns and other edifices, where an ornamental efi'ect is de sirable, and has for itsobject to provide certain improvements in roof coverings by which striking and unusual designs may be secured with relatively thin flat roofing materials, so as to give thereto,the appearance of solidity and the visual effect produced by raised tiles.

In accomplishing this result, I employ roofing elements made of waterproofed felt or analogous material surfaced with colored weatherproof material. For example, I may use individual shingles formed of such material, but generally I prefer to employ roofing strips having on their elongated edges tabs or projections of suitable configuration, which, when the strips are laid in overlapping relation, simulate tiles or shingles.

0n the accompanying drawings Figure 1 represents a roof covering embodying the invention.

Figs. 2 audit represent the individual elements employedinforming the last-mentioned roof covering.

Fig. 4 represents other forms or pairs of overlapping roofing strips which I may em- 10 p Iii the formation of the individual roofing elements, I use a sheet of felt or equivalent fibrous material saturated with asphalt or other equivalent Waterproofing compound, coat the same with a layer of harder asphalt or pitch, either having incorporated therein a suitable pigment or else havingembedded therein. a layer of crushed mineral material. In'sorne cases the mineral material may be formed with alternating bands or stripes of different colors according to the effect to be reduced. Ihe sheet thus formed is cut into individual shingles by suitable machinery, or is severed transversely into shingle strips having on one or both longitudinal edges Specification of Letters Patent.

spaced tabs or projections of predetermined configuration.

I willexplain the invention in connection with the use of shingle strips. Preferably, though not necessarily as will be subsequently explained, these strips may be provided in two different colors or shades and they are arranged in pairs on the roof so that the rows of strips of one color alternate with the rows of the strips of the other color.

I have illustrated forms of strips, by which, when they are laid, a roof covering is formed which gives the appearance of a roof formed of thick bricks arranged in step form. Fig. 2 illustrates a shingle strip 2a having the rectangular tabs or projections 1 25 separated by the parallel side recesses 26 perpendicular to the line lying at the ends of the tabs. Fig. 3 shows the other strip of the pair as indicated at 27, and it is pro vided with tabs or projections 28 which are substantially trapezoidal, spaced by the parallel-sided recesses29 which are at an acute angle to a line lying at the ends of the tabs or projections. These strips, which may be of the same color or of different colors, are laid in pairs, as shown in Fig.1, with the frecesses of one strip substantially registerwhen the roofing elements are made full-size and are laid in accordance with thedirections given herein, the user will securethe effects which I have described.

Having thus explained the nature ofmy said invention and described a way of making and using'the same, although without attempting to set forth all of the forms in which it may be made or all of the modes of its use, what I claim is:

A roof covering consisting of a plurality Patented May '7, 1918.

Application filed August 12, 1915. Serial No. 45,206.

of flat flexible shingle strips laid in overlapping horizontal roWs and having spaced tabs or projections on their exposed lower portions, the strips in one row having ex- 5 posed portions formed With substantially rectangular tabs with substantially parallel intervening vertical recesses, and the strips of an adjacent row having on their exposed portions tabs and intervening'recesses ex tending upwardly and laterally. 19

In testimony whereof I have afiixed my signature.

FREDERICK C. OVERBURY. 

